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GENUS AILUROPODA

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Meaning:

Only the giant panda: in some classifications considered a genus of the separate family Ailuropodidae

Synonyms:

Ailuropoda; genus Ailuropoda

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Ailuropoda" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Ailuropoda"):

Ailuropoda melanoleuca; coon bear; giant panda; panda; panda bear (large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae)

Holonyms ("genus Ailuropoda" is a member of...):

family Procyonidae; Procyonidae (raccoons; coatis; cacomistles; kinkajous; and sometimes pandas)

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